Visa Inc., now run by long-time Dimon ally Charlie Scharf, announced this morning it has hired Ryan McInerney as president in charge of global client organization, product management and new solutions.

It’s a big role for the man who had run J.P. Morgan’s branching network, an area that the New York bank had been attempting to expand.

Of course, executives following their former bosses is no surprise. Scharf, for instance, followed Dimon from Citigroup to Bank One and then to J.P. Morgan. And both Visa and First Data have close relationships with the nation’s biggest bank.

Neither departing executive was in the upper-most-echelon of J.P. Morgan leaders. But both leave as the bank looks to handle regulatory actions. As WSJ reported this morning, the bank is on a full-court press and reassigning staff to handle regulatory concerns. Larsen, as part of the COO-office, was working on those steps and McInerney was one a high-ranking executive in the consumer operations, an area where regulatory actions are expected.

In Sommers, the bank is promoting an executive who had taken on one of the bank’s biggest retail projects, the building of Chase Private Client. Targeting wealthy banking customers. When he took over the unit two years ago it had 4,000 clients and now has more than 100,000.